CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a United States-based 24-hour news television channel and website. A pioneer of round-the-clock cable news, it provides coverage of breaking news, politics, and international affairs to a global audience. It is widely regarded as left-of-center in its political coverage.
CNN at a glance
- Country
- United States
- Region
- North America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Television news channel
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 1980
- Owner
- Warner Bros. Discovery
- Published from
- Atlanta
- Website
- cnn.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups CNN
Crosswire groups CNN as Left-leaning for comparisons within the United States' directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In the United States, USA Today and NBC News are listed as Centrist, while Fox News is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open CNN beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where CNN sits in the United States' press
CNN was founded in 1980, is published from Atlanta and is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It is one of 14 outlets tracked in the United States, and one of 5 television news channels among them — the others being Fox News, NBC News, CBS News and ABC News. By outlets tracked, the United States ranks first of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.
Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 21 of the 66 television news channels in the directory. The nearest counterparts to CNN outside the United States, starting with North America, are 100% Noticias (Nicaragua), Telemetro (Panama), 7 News Belize (Belize) and RJR News (Jamaica). Opening one of them beside CNN is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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